<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Hope you don't mind my starting at the top.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">What an incredible mess we have made of the world. Just a few thousand years ago, if Frazer is correct, we had no religions - just magic (totally different as he defined them).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Now we have thousands of religions (see Oh Gods, from Atlantic Monthly a while back) and two new ones every day. And they exist at the same time as others are still going the magic route, and others are graduating from religion to ????</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">So we used to be very homogeneous and now we are about as diverse as we could get.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">"Those folks over there, with their different religion, food, dance, etc. They are the causes of our problems and we need to wipe them out, get their stuff and their women." About the oldest idea in the world. If you wanted to design a world that strongly tended toward war, you could not have done a better job than to create what we have now.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">FYI, goats and other animals have been brought to courts of law - been found not guilty, been found guilty. In France!! I wonder if all of this is just excuses to kill something and eat it. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Is this the modern world? Yeah, in some places. Many have gone to the Moon and many wear bones in their noses. LOL You gotta admit it's entertaining. I just love psychology and everything related. Just amazing creatures we are.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:56 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-2834153405365703799WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.<wbr>extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] CRACKPOTS (was electoral college)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">John, if you want spiritualism and witchcraft explained</span>…<span style="color:black"> The only evidence here was of the beliefs themselves. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">Evidence has been sought </span>…<span style="color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">HAH! Unbeliever! Here’s yer evidence:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/4325377/Nigerian-police-hold-magic-goat-over-attempted-car-theft.html" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/<wbr>news/worldnews/<wbr>africaandindianocean/nigeria/<wbr>4325377/Nigerian-police-hold-<wbr>magic-goat-over-attempted-car-<wbr>theft.html</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">>…Hasn't been found and won't be, I say… bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Oh ye of little faith.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">You just wait pal, that goat might confess before it’s over.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">{8^D<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Oh man, wouldn’t it be cool, we could play some terrific gags. We get the cell keys, somehow distract the constables, sneak in there with an actual (human) car thief who is under heavy sedation, doesn’t know what’s going on, switch them, get on out of the police station undetected with the goat, watch what happens next morning at breakfast after the thief sobers up. They would be talking about a car theft, which he knows he really did, but would be unable to explain how he turned himself into a goat and how the spell wore off. Any skeptical locals would have their faith reinforced. Oh that would be a total hoot.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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